01085cam a2200193 a 4500008004100000020001800041020001500059040000800074050002400082100001900106245012100125260005200246300001900298505046700317505001700784518001500801650004800816700002700864071129s2008    njua     b    001 0 eng    a9780691134918  a069113491X  aSDU00aKF3114bB557 P 20081 aBessen, James,10aPatent failure :bhow judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk /cJames Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.  aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,c2008.  a331 p. :bill.0 aThe argument in brief -- Why property rights work, how property rights fail -- If you can't tell the boundaries, then it ain't property -- Survey of empirical research : do patents perform like property? -- What are U.S. patents worth to their owners? -- The cost of disputes -- How important is the failure of patent notice? -- Small inventors -- Abstract patents and software -- Making patents work as property -- Reforms to improve notice -- A glance forward.0 aHKBU library  aYT2025 M10 0aPatent laws and legislationzUnited States.1 aMeurer, Michael James.